Issue #5261 has been updated by Nigel Kersten. Status changed from Needs design decision to Accepted
We have to support binary data somehow. I'm not happy that we can't do it via the normal routes though. Ultimately the user shouldn't have to explicitly care whether the source content is binary or not. What is this, FTP from 1993? Thanks for the background links Chris. It's much easier to deal with bugs when people do the groundwork like that for us. ---------------------------------------- Feature #5261: Need a way to transmit binary data for file contents in manifests https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5261 Author: Chris May Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Nigel Kersten Category: Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: In puppet 0.25.x and up (i.e. any configuration that uses the ReST API), it does not appear possible to supply arbitrary binary data in the "content" attribute of a file resource. For example, doing this <pre> file{"/path/to/key.jks": content=>file("/secrets/key.jks") } </pre> will fail if /secrets/key.jks contains any non-UTF-8 characters. Depending on the specific version, the error will be something like <pre> Could not render to pson: Caught Iconv::IllegalSequence: "\355\262\225" </pre> or <pre> Could not render to pson: invalid utf8 byte: '\176' </pre> This issue was discussed in http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4832, in which Felix Frank said "So there’s a design decision after all: If PSON is to be JSON compatible – no binary data.". I take this to mean that content=>file() is not intended to be used with non-UTF-8 data. In that case, would it be possible to have an alternative, binary-safe version of file() (or a binary-content attribute for the file resource) which could base-64 encode content before transmission, and decode it on the client? There's some further discussion on the puppet-users group here:http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/194625e4e453ecb4 -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
